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New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 21, 17 November 1939, Page 6

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E are informed that the Family Album, respected property on the Victorian scene, is to be revived. Yes, but what about those who will have to look through them? * * * HE litter fiend is an undoubted menace. Look at the fields white with dailies. . .. %* * * fears somebody please suggest to the essayist who. says that, for travelling, he prefers "a small, pocket-sized paper, full of reading with a punch in it," that a bus-ticket fills the bill. * * * A POULTRY farmer in England advocates that eggs be sold in the streets, just as ice-cream is at present. Ah, ha! "Stop Me and Fry One." * * %* PpRFINITION of people who cut papers in free libraries: Cliptomaniacs. * * * No grandma, French can tae are not called hors-d’ceuvres! * * * NY attendant in a city information bureau, told us the other day that he answers dozens of silly questions every day. It was on the tip of our tongue to ask, " Why?" Fy * * > IET of Armed Forces," runs a South Island newspaper heading. Sounds like iron rations. * pe * OW that Mexico is socialist, we suppose that Popocapitalist may erupt at any moment! * x * Once it was "Liszt to Liebestraum." But now it’s "To Heil with Lebensraum." % % * T’S so quiet in the broadcasting studios these days you could hear a Ribbentrop! % * * VERHEARD in London: "I wish I ’ad ‘Itler and Danzig ’ere now. I’d knock their ’eads together." * * * N author has complained that a burglar took away some of his most cherished manuscripts. Of course, they may return . .. from force of habit! * * * AN article reveals that cricket balls pass through many tests before they are allowed to leave the factory. That’s nothing to what they pass through after leaving the place.